Side A										18:47
01		Freewheel Burning						04:28
02		Jawbreaker						03:31
03		Rock Hard Ride Free						05:39
04		The Sentinel						05:09
Side B										20:47
05		Love Bites						04:51
06		Eat Me Alive						03:39
07		Some Heads Are Gonna Roll						04:11
08		Hight Comes Down						04:05
09		Heavy Duty						02:29
10		Defenders Of The Faith						01:32

Bass - Ian Hill (2)
Drums - Dave Holland (2)
Engineer - Mark Dodson
Engineer [Assistant] - Ben King (2) , Bruce Hensal , Buddy Thornton , Christian Eser , David Roeder
Guitar - Glenn Tipton , K. K. Downing
Producer - Tom Allom
Vocals - Rob Halford
Written By - Glenn Tipton (tracks: A1 to B2, B4 to B6) , K. K. Downing (tracks: A1 to B2, B4 to B6) , Rob Halford (tracks: A1 to B2, B4 to B6)

Recorded in Europe
Mixed at DB Recording Studios, Miami, Florida and Bayshore Studios, Miami, Florida
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York

"Rising from darkness where hell hath no mercy and the screams of vengeance echo on forever, only those who keep the faith shall escape the wrath of the Metallian... Master Of All Metal."

Although the sleevework on this album was obviously intended to continue from 'Screaming For Vengeance' and maybe 'Hero Hero' in its style and imagery, it is sadly... the worst, and spoils an otherwise excellent album. Again we have the guitar-wielding, melody-rich and highly-hummable numbers like 'Rock Hard Ride Free', 'The Sentinel', and 'Some Heads Are Gonna Roll', with fine performances all round and Rob Halford delivering some of his best vocals to date. Ballad-esque moment comes courtesy of 'Night Comes Down', and Mr. Halford gives it his all to deliver an emotional and effective vocal that really communicates the pain and sadness of the track, tinged with its glimmer of faint hope. Anthemic moments come with 'Heavy Duty'/'Defenders Of The Faith' and 'Love Bites' (nice use of delays and layers on the vocals on this track), pretty simple and a bit drum-machine-driven, but all the better for it, somehow. And there's the heads-down, super-fast sequel to the 'Exciter' of 'Stained Class', 'Freewheel Burning', which in itself has its own sequel in 'Eat Me Alive' (no prizes for guessing the sub-text there, then ;-). Guitars and vocals are very much to the forefront of the arrangements and the mixes of these tracks, which was pretty much the style that was established with 'Killing Machine' and was evidently a formula that worked for this band that never let its distinctive style and sound collapse into formula. This LP is pretty much on a par with 'Screaming For Vengeance', and these two albums are very much a pair in terms of their style, sound, production and general feel overall. A highly productive time for the band, no doubt, representing a stage of maturity, experience and intelligence in their songwriting, and although there's plenty of guitar acrobatics, scorching solos, and arrangement development, the band never lose sight of the importance of just laying down good solid rockin' songs with an epic angle. Which was what they were really good at. And this was the last Priest album, with metal in its heyday, of what could be termed their 'mid'-period before 'Turbo' in 1986, although the sleeve art on that LP is obviously intended to indicate a continuity across the three albums.